Jean escoubes



.(ModeL) I I ESCOUBES.

Shutter Bower.

No. 241,338. Patented May 10,1881...

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS. PhaloL'nhogra her. Washington. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEAN ESOOUBES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHUTTER-BOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,338, dated May 10, 1881,

Application filed January 12, 1881. (Model) T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEAN ESCOUBES, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shutter- Bowers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the drawings hereto annexed.

My invention relates to improvement in shutter-bowers in which a curved bar is used in combination with a catch; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and arrangement, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a horizontal sectional view of a window and its blinds, showing one of the blinds half-way opened and the other entirely opened, each being held in position by my improved bower. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the middle ofa blind held entirely open. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the same on line 3 y of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the middle of a blind, showing the bar hanging down, as it does when not in use.

Heretofore shutter-bowers having a notched or perforated bar have been open to the objection that the blinds could not be independently and separately bowed at any desired position. It is often desirable to bow only one shutter at a time, for the purpose of shading from the sun, and where the bower is attached to and combined with both shutters this obviously cannot be accomplished. Again, if a bar having a pin on its end is used in combination with a perforated plate attached to the shutter the shutter cannot be bowed so as to be held nearly closed, as is often desirable.

To obviate these objections I use the ordinary curved swiveled bar A, which I provide throughout its length with perforations B, an

ranged very closely together. This bar is secured to a bracket, D, which is fastened to the side of the window-casing E, preferably at the height of the central transverse rail, F, of the hinged blind G. Oneeurved barAis secured to each side of the window-casing, in order that each blind may be bowed separately and independently. A plate, H, with a stud, J, is fastened to the inner side of the said middle transverse rail of the blind in such a manner that the stud projects up from the upper surface of the rail to engage with and hold the perforated bar, which is inserted endwise into the narrow horizontal aperture immediately above said rail.

"The inner edge of the shutter is also provided with a plate, L, having a recess, K, and stud, M, therein, for holding the end ot'the bar when the shutter is to be held wide open.

To how the shutters, they are first opened and the curved bar is passed end wise over the middle rail, F, and the stud Jis adjusted in any one of the perforations B, according to the positition the blind is to have. If the blind is to be held entirely open the end of the curved bar is to be inserted into the recess of plate L, where it will be securely held by the stud M, which enters its endmost perforation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The curved swiveled bar A, having closelyarranged perforations B, and secured to the window-casing E by means of bracket D, in combination with shutter Gr, having stud J attached to the lower side of a horizontal aperture and iecessed plate L and stud M in its inner edge, substantially as shown and described, whereby the shntters may be bowed independently, and at any desired position, as set forth.

JEAN ESOOUBES.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, G. SEDGWIOK. 

